OK - so I'm sitting here in paris - with an extra moment - so I dipped my toe back into the blgosphere long enough to catch Jay Dedman's rap on "How to make life easier explained very clearly".
I dig what he's saying and pointing to - but I can't help but wonder how this post would be different if Jay used a combination of thumbnails grabbed from video clips - linking to those video clips - to talk about enclosures, subscribing to and creating video blogs.
Shouldn't we be eating our own digfood?
Shouldn't a video blogger use video blogging to describe video blogging?
It's one thing I haven't seen done yet - which is a consistent combination of thumbnail - which links to a clip - used in blogging gesture.
If so - I bet a bunch more people would click on thsoe video blog links.
[Marc's Voice]
There's so much on the web...that knwoing how to look at what you want is difficult.
Especially when video starts popping up everywhere.
So you start trusting certain places to keep track of the good stuff for you.
You do this by signing up, for free, with a subscrition service like Bloglines or Feedster.
Almost every blog and many websites have an RSS feed that you subscribe to.
You just enter the URL in your subscription service and wait.
New posts will show up...all in one place.
HERE is a simple explanation of RSS.
But we're taking this idea step further...how will video be read by the RSS reader?
When video starts popping up everywhere, it'd be cool to get new videos just pop up on my computer as they're posted.
This happens with "enclosures".
I know...I know...I'm also learning how all this works too....
but Dave Winer explains the concept beautifully here.
Enclosures in RSS feeds made easy
> What if, in the middle of the night, while I'm not using my computer, it
> downloads huge video and audio stuff to my local hard drive. Then
> when I arrive in the morning there are fresh bits, news clips, a song
> of the day, whatever, provided by all kinds of content providers, from
> big TV networks like CNN and MSNBC, to a Dutch school where kids
> are taking a film class using inexpensive video recorders and iMacs.
And HERE is also a good explanation.
What is needed now is this "RSS aggregator" that downloads your audio/videos feeds overnight.
This way you could just wake up and hit "play" on your TV and it'll all come to you.
as far as I know no one has made one yet.
I hear rumors....